
Only When I Laugh is an ITV1 sitcom broadcast from 29 October 1979 to 16 December 1982 for four series with seven episodes each, and a Christmas special in 1981. The title is the answer to the question, "Does it hurt?" A naïve middle-class man is admitted to an NHS hospital ward, shared with a working-class layabout and an upper-class hypochondriac. The trio never fail to cause a nuisance for the poor, unsuspecting staff.
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Air Date: 1979-10-29
Young Norman Binns is admitted to Dr Thorpe's ward and is tricked by pessimistic Roy Figgis into swapping beds so tha...
Air Date: 1979-11-05
Norman has to have an appendectomy but Figgis' doom-laden description of operations and Thorpe's wariness do not give...
Air Date: 1979-11-12
Thorpe is telling Gupte that his dog Victor is unwell but Gupte misunderstands and thinks he's talking about his son....
Air Date: 1979-11-19
Glover has been seeing a Greek girl and panics when her violent boyfriend comes looking for him so Figgis wraps his h...
Air Date: 1979-11-26
Fed up with the quality of the hospital buffet, the patients go on strike but are soon defeated. However, server Cleg...
Air Date: 1979-12-03
Norman is reading a hospital romance, when he sees new nurse Sally, who is exactly like the fictional heroine. He wan...
Air Date: 1979-12-10
When Glover is discharged, an unhappy Figgis, without someone to quarrel with, goes to the pub, pretending to be a do...